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Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
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I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
To its idolatries a patient knee.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.